Logansport High School - Tattler Yearbook (Logansport, IN)

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All high school students must earn one credit in physical education or in some athletic activity. Gym one day a week gives one-tenth of a credit, each sport counts three-tenths. From Miss Ulmer girls learned the fundamentals of volley- ball, shuffleboard, badminton, and table tennis, during the spring, they went to the park for baseball games and outdoor tennis matches. ln Mr. Jones's classes boys preferred basketball, volleyball, and kickball, The pool was open to both groups. Pupils wishing to learn to swim were taught correct methods of breathing, floating, and stroking. After-school swimming was available for pupils who wanted to learn more than regular class time permitted. Underlying all gym classes is emphasis on physical fitness and good health practices. Basketball, usually considered a boys' game, also wins the unqualified approval of girls' physical education classes, Gym classes round outa balanced educational program Q,-, your mark, get 597, go! Once Q week swimming races provide participants with forty minutes of stimulating exerc se 28

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Mrs, Douglas helped beginning and advan- ced sewing classes fashion everything from simple blouses to complicated party dresses. Sixteen girls wishing to become skillful host- esses made up the new fourth period meal planning class taught by Mrs. Webster. Sixteen senior boys who also wanted to gain more cooking knowledge agreed that recipes and measuring cups were necessary items. Other future homemakers, enrolled in home management class, perfected color schemes and planned modern household furnishings. While interested home nursing students watched, little visitors kept their mothers busy with unpredictable childish antics. I Mr Highbaugh enioys o chicken dinner prepared by one of the four groups in Mrs Websters meal planwng class Home economics teaches the necessity of efficient planning Mr. Al Stewart rliscusscs color combinations for rugs, droperies, wallpaper and furniture with the home management class

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Shop courses develop skill Students enrolled in the industrial course learn the basic skills of tool use and opera- tion and develop safe work habits, Oppor- tunities and experiences in many fields help boys to select future occupations. During the year, print shop students printed the Magpie, tickets for the senior class play and Winter Fantasy, and programs, torms, and directories for the school. ln woodshop pupils progressed from hand to machine tools and made everything from props for all school productions to comp- licated articles of modernistic furniture. The fundamentals of electricity were taught in electrical shop classes by means of textbooks, laboratory work, and class tours. In mechanical drawing classes students drew views of tools, blocks, and angles and sketched plans for their future homes. From stock metal, machine shop pupils cut Screwdrivers, bolts, hammers, and jacks, Shop taught that efficiency and neatness are necessary qualities in modern industry. Marvin Cole, pressman and make-up man for the school newspaper, cuts pages before making a bu-monthly press run. Supervision by Mr. Gaiser enables Wes Parmeter and Danny Farrell to operate the new planing machine safely.